Hi all

So I've started playing the Whitemood Schlecter opening vs the French. My understanding is that white's light sq bishop is important and we play against black's (usually bad) light sq bishop.

However I recently had a game that went thus: 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Bd3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. Ne2 b6 - with black clearly intending 6…Ba6 to try and exchange their bad bishop.

I haven't seen this move covered anywhere and wondered what the best response is for white and what white's plan should be - the engine gives either c4 or 0-0 but I don't see what the idea is afterwards.

Thanks.